There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?

The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl will plunge into it, sometimes without either fear or wit; at twenty, she will begin to think; at twenty-four, will weigh and discriminate; at twenty-eight, will be afraid of venturing; at thirty, will turn about, and look down the hill she has ascended, and sometimes rejoice, sometimes repent, that she has gained that summit sola.